Robin wrote: > > it overkill to include every possible change of format in one dialog box.
> If you ran into the problems that I have, then this wouldn't be classified as > overkill. Do you sincerely, and absolutely think that having all 500 odd attributes of a style, with their roughly 2 5000 options being displayed on the screen at the same time is going to help you? Are you absolutely convinced you wont' thro w up your hands in panic, wailing "I don't understand what any these attributes do?" Especially since you have demonstrated that you: i) Do not understand styles; ii) Do not understand how styles are implemented in OOo; iii) Do not understand the attributes of _any_ of the styles that OO0o has; iv) Do not understand what the options of any of the attributes of any of the styles in OOo doe; > Not very productive when working on large documents created from mutiple > sources. I've already explained how to clean up that problem OTOH, you have also claimed that you cannot: i) Change the markup of the documents; ii) Change the content of those documents; I guess you can change the structure of those documents, but "Reveal Codes" do not have anything to do with structure. > And these can be hard to find. A RC style viewer or at least reveal > formatting points may make life much better in these cases for people like me. Using the _current_ setup of OOo, it should not take longer than 0.0001 seconds, to see where a style change has occurred, _regardless_ of how, or what that change is. If it takes longer than that, the person is _not_ paying attention to their document. > The example I have used is verticle text in an imported document. Explain why you failed to create a _vertical_ writing style? [BTW, was it supposed to be LR, R2L, T2B, or B2T?>] > I have messages from 2003 on this. The RC issue was created in 2002-Mar-07. And it should have been closed on 7 March 2002 with "works for me", followed by "won't fix" with the reason that "This would significantly degrade the functionality, and usability of OOo". [ Especially since OOo _currently_ (march 2002) did offer the functionality that RC provides.] xan jonathon -- Ethical conduct is a vice. Corrupt conduct is a virtue. Motto of Nacarima.
